I have now come to the end of my photographic material from the summertime trip to Greece. Over the course of a dozen and a…
The last ruins that we visited in Greece was Mycenae, the center of the Late Bronze Age civilization that was the main precursor to the…
Delphi was the sacred center of the world for the Ancient Greeks and undoubtedly a remarkable achievement of purposeful architecture, a sanctuary built into the…
Three geographically dispersed monasteries in Greece are inscribed together on the World Heritage list as the great examples of the golden age of Byzantine art.…
I always find myself awed by grandiose edifices. Beholding the Parthenon up close, unfailingly grandiose despite its ruined state blended with a construction site, made…
Common wisdom holds Athens as a single-day destination, with one must-see sight and little else beyond that which is exceptional. Its abundance of ancient ruins…
This was not exactly a spontaneous trip – we planned it almost three months in advance – but it did come up fairly spontaneously back…
It may sound unexpected coming from yours truly, but if there was a day that stood out on our two-weeks-plus-long trip to Greece, it was…
The second part of our day cruise that first took us to Delos was Mykonos. A renowned “party island”, it may have been completely ignored…
For all of the obvious associations between Greece and the ancient cultures, it has a surprisingly modest number of recognized World Heritage sites: 18 properties…
Our time on Naxos was structured as a sequence of day-long excursions. One of those was a chauffeured private tour around the island, with stops…
If we fell in love with one place in Greece, it was Naxos. Although it is not exactly unknown, it does not attract as many…
The village of Oia enjoys incontestable top billing among Santorini sights – to the point that some travel publications caption a photograph of Oia as…
Oia – pronounced EE-yah, the O is silent – is one of the most recognizable destinations in the world and a place that always features…
The terrace of our apartment on Santorini was facing west and we were able to add a pretty sunset to the incredible sunrise that we…
This last point of interest that we explored while on Crete deserves its own blog entry in part because of the insanely beautiful mountain road…
Crete is a huge island, impossible to cover in much detail in less than a week’s time. We did not attempt anything of the kind.…
The capital of Crete does not offer much in terms of must-see sights (Knossos Palace, by any measure near the top of the list of…
In our two-plus weeks in Greece this past summer, we have purposefully visited 8 archaeological sites and probably saw just as many in passing. That…
You may have seen this view before, as my lovely spouse, who is significantly more active on social media than yours truly, posted her versions…